Education

Studies in Sociology, Political Science, Philosophy and German Literature at the University of Hamburg. Diploma degree in Sociology in 2000. Ph.D. (Dr. rer. soc) 2009 at Hamburg University of Technology with a thesis on political discourses on the Internet.

Professional background

2000 - 2007

Staff member at the Institute for Technology and Society, Hamburg University of Technology

2008 - 2009

Staff member in the Emmy Noether junior research group "Comparative Micro-Sociology of Criminal Procedure" at Freie Universität Berlin

2010 - 2012

Project manager for e-participation at Zebralog GmbH & Co. KG Berlin

since 2009

Staff member at the Media Center, Dresden University of Technology

since 2013

Staff member at ITAS

since 2014

also affiliated to the Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag (TAB)

Fields of work

Social impacts oft he Internet (with special focus on politics and science and education)

Participative policy-making

New and emerging techno sciences (NEST), with special focus on nanotechnology and synthetic biology (SYNENERGENE project)